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8:00 PM
It didn't work so I turfed it.
 
I can, for most of my widgets.
 
@Mitch Whew.
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 all sorts of people at workplaces where the IT group is to scraed to change (because the existing apps might (and do) fail on the newer OSs/browsers)
@ΜετάEd except that just means we're mutually dated.
 
@Mitch Sssssh.
 
@Robusto I worked there up until last week. I believe they're planning to run a pilot later this year, of upgrading to IE8.
 
@DavidWallace That's a bold move. You sure they want to jump two releases in a single bound?
 
@Mitch Except that I know that the IE6 usage is very low and declining fast worldwide, according to Microsoft's own stats. So, yes, workplaces run out of date software, but that's getting absurd. It's like if you told me that your workplace was running Windows 3.11 for workgroups.
 
The parent company of the company I work for has IE6 as a "standard" and twice a year I have to use a kiosk version to do HR stuff. Really, really primitive.
 
Awww.
 
8:04 PM
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 How do you do screen snaps on your phone?
 
I should put the browser icon there too.
Your clock looks like it could be improved upon.
 
@Robusto on ICS and later, you press volume-down and power simultaneously
 
Surely you can just use the alarm icon from your application drawer?
 
@Cerberus that's where it was in stock.
 
I replaced it with Dolphin, but I stopped using that.
 
8:06 PM
@Cerberus surely. But I like the clock, it lets me see the wallpaper :)
 
Use semi-transparent widgets?
Use an empty second screen to watch the background?
 
Or I could look at the photo in the Gallery app, which is handily-shortcutted right there. :)
 
Oh noes, another button press!
 
But my point is that most of the frequently-used things are right there. I almost never use the app launcher.
 
You only use so few applications?
 
8:08 PM
The two folders you see are "chat" and "notes"
@Cerberus I guess? How many should I use?
 
At least 23.
I believe it says so in the manual.
 
@Cerberus Well, there are 20 right there on the home screen.
well, 18: two of those shortcuts are websites
 
See?
 
but on another home screen it's filled with games.
and one another it's filled with apps I use for chinese language, like Google Translate, and Pleco
And you have a widget that I've replaced with an app. Notification Toggle lets you put toggles and shortcuts in the notification area. I think you'd like it.
Actually, that feature is built-in to CyanogenMod, it's pretty good.
 
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Q: word for a word in which words begin with letters of a previous word

lowerkeyI was wondering if someone knew the word that describes a poem where each word begins with the letters of a previous word, of if such a word even exists. An example of such a poem is this: http://crosswords.net23.net/poems/Joshua.html (I wrote it) Someone told me there was a word for this kind ...

The title...
Make it go away...
 
8:20 PM
@ЯegDwight You have the power.
 
I am too busy puking.
Also, I'm long done.
 
That's my home screen. Family photo buttons were redacted.
The built-in screen-snap utility doesn't recognize scroll amount. Interesting. I tried to snap my bloatware update queue but it only shows the top.
 
@Andrew Leach ... have got again a lotta congratulations for your today 10k result! ... thank you for having punctualized the link! ... but there I found nothing! — Xavier Vidal Hernández 22 mins ago
What's punctualized?
 
You guys think ELU gets bad questions?
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Q: Measure of AB when A is (-3,1) and B is (2,4)

InceptionFormula is Square Root of (x1 - x2) + (y1 - y2)

 
yes, yes we do
 
8:34 PM
@simchona made punctual?
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 So the link is...on time?
 
Punctualized is to punctured as burglarized is to burgled?
 
@DavidWallace I see. by which I mean I don't
 
@simchona Yeah, otherwise, the other people at the party just stand around, unlinked.
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Isn't that what vodka is for? Hooking people up?
 
8:36 PM
@simchona That reminds me of a Tim Minchin song.
 
From the same question, ' ... In addiction, as "Nortonn S" has demonstrated, ... '
Does that mean he's on drugs?
 
OK, gang, very quickly: name two words in English that have all the vowels (including y) in order, each appearing only once. Go!
 
(ie, the question that the punctualized link points to)
I know the answer!
But I shan't spoil it for the others!
 
Did I not say Go!
 
And Matt knows the answer too, because I told him once.
 
8:40 PM
First correct answer gets a star.
 
alphabet! it has all the letters
 
Mar 14 at 11:38, by David Wallace
@MattЭллен That's why I only asked facetiously
 
@DavidWallace That's one.
 
See, I answered months ago! And I did it abstemiously.
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And you shall have a star.
 
8:41 PM
lol
 
And I fart bow in your general direction.
 
How about an 8-letter monosyllable. Anyone?
 
Hmm ... chough is only six letters. Damn.
Squashed?
 
Actually the comment I intended to link to was just before that one.
Mar 14 at 11:36, by David Wallace
@MattЭллен I would ask you facetiously if you could use all six in order.
See, I am pulling a Reg Dwight.
 
9 hours ago, by ЯegDwight
@Robusto no quoting in this chat.
he's doomed us all!
 
8:45 PM
Brougham?
 
I can no longer refer to him, now that he's changed his R to something more difficult to type.
 
Come on, I gave you two eight-letter monosyllables.
Anyway, gotta commute.
 
I starred your one 8-letter monosyllable. Brougham doesn't count.
 
@DavidWallace Why not it count?
 
And I don't have the strength to tell you why not.
 
8:47 PM
A brougham (pronounced "broom" or "brohm") was a light, four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage built in the 19th century. It was either invented for Scottish jurist Lord Brougham or simply made fashionable by his example. It had an enclosed body with two doors, like the rear section of a coach; it sat two, sometimes with an extra pair of fold-away seats in the front corners, and with a box seat in front for the driver and a footman or passenger. Unlike a coach, the carriage had a glazed front window, so that the occupants could see forward. The forewheels were capable of turning sharply. A v...
"Pronounced 'broom' or 'brohm' ..."
Both monosyllables.
 
Not when I say it, it isn't.
I don't want to talk about people who ride around on brooms.
I don't have the strength.
 
Well, go ahead and add diphthongs where not needed while I go home. Bye!
 
OK, I'll give you half a star for brougham.
And another half star for educating me.
It's just as well Tom isn't here. He'd write a regular expression for it, and give me a list of all of them.
 
If balrogs were alligator lizards then they could fly, couldn't they?
 
8:50 PM
if (!(!profile.getBoolean(IFields.VISIBLE)))
srsly!?
 
!(!(srsly));
 
sighs I know
 
I fields, you fields, we all fields for VISIBLE
 
I've seen...
if( a == 0 ){
// stuff
} else if( a != 0 ){
// stuff
}
 
I need to eliminate half the if-statement, the true half, so I should change it to if (!(!(!profile.getBoolean(IFields.VISIBLE))))
 
8:51 PM
damn straight
 
(Where a doesn't get changed within the first bracketed block)
 
@DavidWallace it's more thread safe that way!
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 My widget can do that too, but I prefer to have it directly on the home screen.
 
I bet you do! saucy wink
 
Hooray for Cerb's widget!
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8:53 PM
@Robusto Awww.
@DavidWallace Thanks!!
 
9:13 PM
@tchrist ... sic transit gloria mundi ... — Xavier Vidal Hernández 11 mins ago
Hahahaha.
Well tchrist asked for it.
 
9:27 PM
◔_◔
 
9:39 PM
@DavidWallace strenghths?
 
@ЯegDwight An exercise in biglotry.
@Cerberus But that's the sky on Maui in the background. Palm trees foreground. Pacific in middle.
 
argh!!! "strengths"
 
@Robusto That's nice.
 
@Mitch Nice. Nine letters.
@Mitch Wait, how about "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!" That's 24 letters right there in one syllable. This game is easy.
The Pope has it but he does not use it.
Your father has it but your mother uses it.
Nuns do not need it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has a big one,
Michael J. Fox's is quite small.
What is it?
 
@Robusto Easy.
 
9:52 PM
Is that your answer?
 
Are we posting answers?
 
Apparently not.
 
A fortune?
 
Hahahaha!
No, my father doesn't have a fortune. At least not that he lets my mother use.
 
Not true in my case, but hey.
 
9:55 PM
@ЯegDwight ... when I read your rare comments the question of the limits of human understanding arose in my mind! — Xavier Vidal Hernández 5 mins ago
I hope he asks it on ELU.
 
Fun.
 
@ЯegDwight I suppose that comment is unnecessarily chatty.
 
Most of his comments are.
 
@ЯegDwight Sim will be so all-over that one.
 
You have to give him one thing, he knows how to ping me.
 
10:02 PM
@tchrist Hey, @t.
 
@ΜετάEd Aye?
 
@Robusto A surname
although one of @KitFox's sons may be able to provide an alternative answer.
 
What's that now?
 
@DavidWallace Oh, now you've given it away.
 
@ΜετάEd But Robusto gives out free stars!
 
10:07 PM
@DavidWallace Yeah, well, my mommy told me I'm a star no matter what my teachers say.
 
I guess she needed to.
 
@DavidWallace Aye.
 
@ЯegDwight He posted it again
... sic transit gloria mundi ... — Xavier Vidal Hernández 3 mins ago
 
So what's the easiest way to type that backward-R-thingy so that I can ping Reg now that he's not @Reg any more?
 
@ЯegDwight Just letting you know I know how to ping you too.
 
10:10 PM
@DavidWallace What kind of system do you have?
OS? Browser?
 
Or is it like a Masonic handshake?
@ΜετάEd See, that's the thing. It shouldn't be necessary to ask me that.
I use about 3 different operating systems and 4 different browsers.
I guess @RegDwight will have to resign himself to the fact that he's going to get far less attention from me, from now on.
 
Jez
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Q: If the conditions warrant

Nortonn S! Source 'Central bank securities purchases have provided meaningful support to the economic recovery,' he said adding later that, 'we should not rule out the further use of such policies if economic conditions warrant.' The verb warrant is transitive. So is a it or that missing after...

 
@DavidWallace Oh, I totally agree. I wish one of these days that Chrome will incorporate a reasonable virtual keyboard, or compose sequences. We should be able to compose any Unicode codepoint.
 
Jez
wtf, exclamation mark?
 
It's simchona's secret code.
 
10:13 PM
@DavidWallace I didn't start it. FF did.
 
Who's FF?
 
Three bilinguals walk into a bar.
 
@simchona Doesn't take a hint.
 
@SpareOom So it's time to rename myself into ЖegDwight, after all.
 
Need some help with (Classical Greek?) pronunciation over here.
 
10:21 PM
It would be classier for you to be ЯeЖDwight. But with a lower case Ж.
 
I'm no Classical Greek, but why would anyone want to read -paegnia with a [dʒ]?
 
I have no idea.
I think they are confused.
 
But it could be like an Italian gn.
 
With an extra i?
 
@DavidWallace and that is a [dʒ], how?
 
10:22 PM
The same way that Я is an R.
 
Tuschэ.
 
@DavidWallace “ж”?
 
And you should write Dwiğt, like the Turkish.
 
@ЯegDwight Whatever floats your boat, ЖegDwight.
 
Not his boat, his tushie!
 
10:25 PM
I could write Reg as Rеg. Then nobody would even notice.
 
You could write Dwight as Dwight.
 
Those are identical.
 
@DavidWallace Ok, I don't see the difference there. I might have trouble with that.
 
@ЯegDwight I could write Reg as R\N{CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IE}g. Then nobody would even notice
 
If you wrote Reg as Rеg, I still wouldn't be able to ping you!
 
10:26 PM
@DavidWallace In that case the "i"'s wrong. Düaiğt?
 
@SpareOom I thought one of them would be Dwіght, but no, them's both Dwight.
 
I did it just to see how long you would take to come to that conclusion.
 
Immediately.
I would take immediately.
 
How? By noticing?
 
!!uniquote -v
 
10:28 PM
By saying them both out loud, duh.
 
Silly me!
 
@tchrist I'm on a Windows machine. So it's even easier and faster. Copypaste both into Google, see if the results differ.
 
That's exactly what the designers of google had in mind.
 
@ЯegDwight I keep telling you how to fix that.
 
Hey, Chrome thinks "google" is a spelling error!
 
10:29 PM
@DavidWallace I know. One of them was Russian, after all.
 
@DavidWallace Lowercased, it would be
 
Hyvää päivää.
 
@tchrist And I keep ignoring you. How's that for symbiosis?
 
I only installed Chrome on my laptop yesterday.
@simchona Nonsense. I google documents while my partner hoovers the floor.
@Mahnax Thank you. Don't mind if I do.
 
@DavidWallace Of course.
 
10:30 PM
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Q: pronunciation: question about dictionary phonetic symbol

JackThe word "meditative": In one dictionary,the forth letter "i" is pronounced "ə",but in another dic it is pronounced "ɪ". I am learning british-english by myself. but I don't know which phonetic symbol I can follow with. I listened the dic's voice sample, they all sounds like "ɪ" in each dicti...

 
@Mahnax my wife taught me some obscene Finnish yesterday. Today I can't remember a single letter.
 
@DavidWallace It probably thinks you mean googol
 
Way too much dic in that question.
 
Actually, Chrome thinks that's wrong too. It just hates English.
 
@tchrist Hah! I should provide a New Zealand answer to that question!
That would amuse @MattЭллен
 
10:31 PM
@ЯegDwight Ha.
Your wife speaks Finnish?
 
@simchona And it hates New Zealand.
 
@DavidWallace Go ahead. Jack's from China, so you're closer.
 
Yeah, but he/she said "British English".
 
Although I suppose it is popular to know curses in other languages.
 
@J.R. ... yes, you are correct and I agree with you, but vote results may differ materially as a result of factors differently identified; if the community considers that such particular other factors may be relevant to cast positive votes, no one can impede it! — Xavier Vidal Hernández 4 mins ago
Does he just sit next to a thesaurus and type?
 
10:32 PM
Actually, he/she said "british-english" but the effect's the same.
 
@DavidWallace No hermaphodites in this chat!
 
OK, I'll send my snails home.
 
@Mahnax no, but yesterday she did.
 
You've changed wives? Or she's forgotten a whole language overnight?
 
@simchona I've begged him to cut out the bullshit, but he refuses.
 
10:33 PM
@ЯegDwight Then the Koskenkorva kicked in, and it was all gone?
 
Yes. What?
 
@DavidWallace Sorry, I didn't mean to make the s-cars go.
 
Finland, the land where Koskenkorva Viina flows.
 
Whatever flows your boot.
 
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Q: "Is it" South Africa only

FredI don't know if it is still in vogue but ten years ago in South Africa the phrase "Is it?" was common. It could be used as a response to almost any statement. Is it (ha ha) unique to South Africa or of Brit origin? examples: "I'm going to the movies" - "Is it?" "Can't find my keys." -"Is it?" "H...

 
10:36 PM
Sorry, @simchona, but I understand the question.
 
@DavidWallace I don't see a question
Never mind, it was hidden.
 
"Is it (ha ha) unique to South Africa or of Brit origin?"
 
Hidden next to an odd parentheses.
 
I'm a moron; I went to the other tab where the question was open, to cut and paste that one excerpt from it. I could have stayed in this tab.
 
@tchrist Can you recommend any resources for someone looking to learn perl?
 
10:38 PM
Hidden all the way around an odd parentheses in fact.
@Mahnax Hahaha!
Why would Tom know anything about such matters?
 
Gee, I don't know.
 
@Mahnax Me.
 
While you're at it, will you ask Bill Gates to recommend an operating system?
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@DavidWallace Would he say "Me." as well?
@tchrist Would you though?
 
@Mahnax 12 years ago, maybe.
 
10:40 PM
@Mahnax I just did.
 
@tchrist I suppose you did. Would you be willing to teach it to a foolish child?
 
@Mahnax You could palwal with @cornbreadninja.
 
@Mahnax - I would thoroughly recommend "The Perl Cookbook" by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington.
 
@Mahnax Why, do you know one?
The Cookbook might be suitable.
 
Is it a beginner's book though?
 
10:42 PM
At least one of the authors is thoroughly knowledgeable.
 
Depends whether you already know how to program in anything.
All it is is examples.
 
I do Javascript and I used to dabble in Objective-C. Sometimes I try to do things with Python.
 
Hah! Mahnax said "foolish child" and Tchrist just ASSUMED he was talking about himself, and said "you". Nice way to insult someone!
 
@DavidWallace Read more closely.
 
@Mahnax why do you want to learn Perl?
 
10:44 PM
@DavidWallace It looks like fun.
 
Like Finnish?
 
Yeah. Well, Finnish is sort of my heritage.
 
I want to learn self-flagellation.
 
commutes
 
@DavidWallace That's… interesting.
 
10:49 PM
Anyone know what this means? aharoni.wordpress.com
 
I'm off to dodo land.
Sue all tomorrow.
 
Bye.
 
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Q: Throw caps at you mean

NoahWhat does the following mean? You are doing something right if someone throws caps at you.

 
@DavidWallace "Learning"?
@DavidWallace Aharoni is a name. A Hebrew surname, it seems.
Or should I say an Israeli surname.
 
I found it while googling "Unicode ya", in an attempt to find out how to type the first character of Reg's name. I shall, from now on, add "ya mama" to all of my sentences, ya mama.
 
11:11 PM
@DavidWallace Did you find it?
 
user19161
While we are at Perl, what would be a good book to learn Python from?
 
Find what, ya mama? How to type that backward R thing, ya mama?
 
@WillHunting I hear the Learn Python the Hard Way course/book is good.
 
user19161
@Mahnax Sounds good. All hard things are good.
 
@DavidWallace Yup.
 
11:13 PM
U+042F.
 
@SpareOom Nothing that will work on my laptop, ya mama. It looks like Reg will just have to cope with not being pinged by me, ya mama.
 
@DavidWallace Aw. My laptop has it. gloats
 
Typing the first character of Reg's name is simple. Just C-k J A.
 
I click command+spacebar, then Q. Idk what C-k J A does from here if anything.
 
@SpareOom You do have vim installed … right?
 
11:17 PM
Or I can go to the special character palate. What's vim? I probably don't.
Why would I need it?
 
I can always open up google translate, choose a language that has ya, open up the little keyboard widget, type it there, then copy paste it, ya mama. But it's really not worth it just to ping Reg, ya mama. He's not that special, ya mama.
 
Or you could always just copy/paste it from his name.
 
Assuming he's somewhere that I can find him easily, ya mama.
 
Yeah.
 
Or I could just search for ЯegDwight, ya mama .... no, wait!
@SpareOom Yes, but all the characters there are palatalised, ya mama.
 
11:24 PM
@Mahnax That's how he told me. I assume that will work for anyone with unknown characters in their name. I hadn't had a problem with Яeg, because i recognized the character, but MetaEd has a Latin-looking non Latin letter in front, at which I was befuddled.
 
@SpareOom Any character that you don't recognize can be pasted into the search bar in your character palette.
BTW, command+shift+4, then space is quite nice for taking screenshots of windows.
 
Hah! I don't have a command key, ya mama. I'll have to borrow one of the ones on my son's MacBook (he has two, ya mama).
 
Well, I'm off to dinner. Bye!
 
@Mahnax I know there are people who like to say try pressing "some combination of unknown keys" to get people to erase something. I'm assuming you're not doing that to me, but what will that do? I can take a screen shot, but it's command+shift+3 for full screen and command+shift+4 and I can highlight the part for the screenshot.
@Mahnax Bye.
@DavidWallace That's what I'm using.
 
@SpareOom cmd+shift+4 gets you the snapshot region selector, pressing space gets you the snapshot window selector, so you don't have to click and drag if you want a whole window
 
11:34 PM
@Cameron Thank you.
@Cameron I'm not sure that's working.
 
hmm, interesting. I'm on OSX 10.6, are you on a new one?
also, be sure that it's cmd+shift+4, then release, then space, not all together
 
OSX 10.5.8
@Cameron That's it!
 
Ah, good
 
@Mahnax I don't understand.
 
11:51 PM
@SpareOom What don't you understand?
 
@Mahnax Is the point of pasting the unknown character into the search bar of my character palatte to locate it in the palatte? If it isn't contained in my palatte, will it add it? Or something else?
 
@SpareOom It's more to find out what it is than anything else.
 
Am I spelling that all wrong?
 
@SpareOom palette*
Palate is in your mouth.
 
@Mahnax That explains DavidWallace's comment.
 
11:56 PM
@SpareOom OK.
 
Rats I ruined the correction.
 
No apostrophe.
 
@Mahnax Thanks.
 
No problem.
 

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